#also im still debating with myself the right course of actioj for that stage

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ok here are my best pictures ^w^

first three are before the total eclipse began. the first two show the umbra crossing before the red starts really showing up. the third one was like right before totality began (theres that little bit of sliver of light left on the bottom still). then the last one is shortly after totality began

#brot posts #astro posting #eclipse #photography #i wish i had researched how to photograph an eclipse prior but. well. i didnt #so theres a ton of things here that are making me wince that i wish i didnt do but like #the eclipse is a transient event i was just trying to get pics at all #normally you dont take exposures through a telescope. or at least not my kind of telescope #(mine does not do autolocking and tracking) #youre supposed to take a video and then take the pictures from the video (ideally by stacking but im not that advanced yet) #but ! if i did it that way then like. the red didnt show up at all #and it just wasnt focusing right because of the fog #so i had to do exposures to get pics #but that makes the pictures. SOOO grainy (as seen in the third and fourth ones) #second one is weirdly enough my best LOL #i didnt do an exposure there bc there was still enough light left that it was flooding out my lens even without the exposure #same for the first one #also im still debating with myself the right course of actioj for that stage #i forgot my moon filter for those which means i couldnt capture the details of the lit part. and also the lit part kinda floods out the #rest of the pic #but in hindsight. wouldnt using the moon filter made seeing the umbra harder ??? #which is like. the goal of eclipse photography? #so im. hm. still debating that